The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016

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David J. Thouless

Prize share: 1/2

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F. Duncan M. Haldane

Prize share: 1/4

Ill: N. Elmehed. © Nobel Media 2016

J. Michael Kosterlitz

Prize share: 1/4

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was divided, one half awarded to David J. Thouless, the other half jointly to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter".